News about Tim Cook

I visited Apple Park for the iPhone 16 launch - here's what REALLY happens behind-the-scenes at the secretive Cupertino headquarters

www.dailymail.co.uk, September 15, 2024
At first glance at this structure, you'd be forgiven for mistaking it as a spaceship from the latest science fiction blockbuster. But the building is very much real, and is home to one of the most famous technology companies in the world. Apple Park in Cupertino, California, has been the corporate headquarters of Apple since 2017. While the tech giant is usually extremely restrictive about which visitors it lets in, MailOnline's Shivali Best was selected to visit the site for the iPhone 16 launch event this week. From Apple-branded coffees to an observatory with a strict no-photo policy, here's what it's really like inside the secretive Cupertino headquarters.

Amal Clooney exudes glamour in a white silk gown as she and husband George welcome Apple CEO Tim Cook to Lake Como ahead of his Wolfs Venice Film Festival premiere

www.dailymail.co.uk, August 29, 2024
Amal and George Clooney welcomed Apple CEO Tim Cook to their $100 million 18th century Lake Como villa on Wednesday. The couple headed out on a boat with the businessman, 63, for dinner at five-star hotel Villa Passalacqua.  Amal, 46, looked incredible in a white silk gown and wedges for the occasion, while George, 63, opted for a tailored blue suit and white shirt which he left partially undone. 

Jeff Bezos and fiancée Lauren Sanchez join Tim Cook and Robert Kraft at annual Sun Valley 'billionaires summer camp'

www.dailymail.co.uk, July 10, 2024
Media and tech titans have descended upon Sun Valley, Idaho for their annual 'billionaires summer camp.' This years star-studded guest list includes New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft , Apple CEO Tim Cook, Disney boss Bob Iger, OpenAI leader Sam Altman, Gayle King and many more.

The $10trillion tech giants: Value of Nvidia, Microsoft and Apple combined makes world's third largest economy

www.dailymail.co.uk, June 20, 2024
Nvidia chief Jensen Huang, left, Apple boss Tim Cook, centre, and Microsoft's Satya Nadella, right, lead the world's three biggest quoted companies with a combined value that tops $10 trillion. Nvidia this week overtook tech giant Microsoft to become the most valuable company on earth having leapfrogged iPhone maker Apple earlier this month.

Apple teams up with OpenAI - giving iPhone users access to ChatGPT technology

www.dailymail.co.uk, June 10, 2024
Apple chief exec Tim Cook (pictured) set out how the US tech giant would incorporate AI into its iPhone, iPad and Mac laptops. And he confirmed media speculation that it is integrating its products with ChatGPT. This will allow users to ask a question via its Siri feature and the AI chatbot will give a response.

Move aside Tim Cook, there's a new $100bn tech bro in town! How rockstar CEO of Nvidia sparked 'Jensanity' in Taiwan and signed a fan's chest when £3tn firm past Apple after he 'accidentally' invented chips powering AI revolution while eating at Denny's

www.dailymail.co.uk, June 6, 2024
Jensen Huang, 61, has been CEO of Nvidia since it was formed in 1993 with just $40,000 - and loves the company so much he has its logo tattooed on his arm and has even discussed becoming part-robot to prolong his life and stay at its helm for decades. Today he is the toast of the tech world - and the stock market - after the AI giant became a $3trillion company. Nvidia h as overtaken Apple and is a whisker from going past Microsoft, the world's biggest tech company by market value. But Jensen, viewed as a tech genius of his generation, insists he stumbled on the idea of making computer chips while eating a turkey sandwich at a Denny's diner in 1993 - and the rest is history. After Nvidia's shares soared by $2trillion in the past 12 months , the leather-jacketed rock star CEO now worth $102billion himself was mobbed in Taipei this week. He spent more than an hour patiently stopping to pose for selfies and signed dozens of autographs, including for one female fan who begged him to write his name across her chest.

What $2M gets you in tech mogul haven Palo Alto - an uninhabitable three bed 'fixer-upper'

www.dailymail.co.uk, May 31, 2024
Real estate fans shared their shock after viral footage showed what $2 million will get homebuyers in affluent Palo Alto. In the Instagram video, realtor Olivia McNally shows viewers around a rundown three-bedroom 1950s 'fixer-upper' located on a quiet cul-de-sac in Palo Alto's wealthy Barron Park neighborhood - complete with ugly shag green carpets and a shocking lack of amenities. The California enclave is home to tech moguls including Mark Zuckerberg and Tim Cook and boasts some of the highest property prices in the nation.

Revealed: America's highest paid CEOs as pay packets soar and half of execs made at least $15.7million

www.dailymail.co.uk, May 21, 2024
A new report shows that compensation packages of the CEOs of the largest companies in America shattered records in 2023, with stock awards largely responsible for the increase. Analysis by the Wall Street Journal showed the average pay of the CEOs of the biggest firms in the US was $15.7 million. That's up from $14.5 million in 2022. The top eight CEOs all made $50 million or more during the past year, reflecting a global trend of growing salaries for executives. Those salaries are generally reliant on performance.

EyePhone! Apple will soon let iPhone and iPad users control their devices with their EYES

www.dailymail.co.uk, May 17, 2024
The idea of controlling your smartphone with your eyes might sound like technology from the latest science fiction blockbuster. But it's set to become a reality for millions of iPhone users around the world. Apple has confirmed that it is enabling eye tracking on both the iPhone and the iPad. Using artificial intelligence (AI), the tool will allow users to navigate their Apple device using just their eyes.

Apple is hosting an event today titled 'Let Loose' where it could unveil four new products - here's what we expect to see

www.dailymail.co.uk, May 7, 2024
For Apple fans, nothing rouses excitement quite like an unveiling event. Now, the tech giant is gearing up to host its first one of the year - and it's expected to unveil at least four new products. The event, dubbed 'Let Loose', will be streamed online on Apple TV, Apple's website and Apple's YouTube channel from 10am Eastern Time (3pm BST) today. Apple CEO Tim Cook has already told his X followers to 'pencil us in' (inset), alluding to what the company has in store.

Apple adds more than £145bn to its value after unveiling largest share buyback in corporate history

www.dailymail.co.uk, May 3, 2024
The iPhone maker saw shares jump more than 7 per cent as it revealed it will spend £88billion buying its own stock back from investors. The tech giant also raised its quarterly dividend by 4 per cent. The share price rally left Apple valued at £2.3 trillion - making it worth more than the entire FTSE 100 in the UK. Only two Footsie firms - Astrazeneca and Shell - are worth more than the £145billion gain Apple made in a single day.

Apple reports 4% fall in quarterly sales as it suffers downturn in China

www.dailymail.co.uk, May 2, 2024
The iPhone maker's revenues for the three months to the end of March fell to £72.4bn but were better than analysts had feared. And chief executive Tim Cook said he expected a return to sales growth in the current quarter as it invests in AI features to be unveiled in the coming months.

Apple boss Tim Cook confirms unveiling event on May 7 with cryptic teaser

www.dailymail.co.uk, April 26, 2024
Apple CEO Tim Cook has posted a cryptic animated teaser for the event, which he confirmed will be streamed online on May 7. The animation features the Apple logo being drawn in a variety of bright colours and artistic styles, including one with a hand holding a stylus. The Apple boss told his followers on social media platform X to 'pencil us in', alluding to what the company has in store.

Women can have penises and 'deadnaming' a trans person, according to Google's Gemini AI, which is the same as the world's largest virus outbreak

www.dailymail.co.uk, March 3, 2024
Despite Google's claims that the technology is no longer producing woke and conflict responses, the company has continued to produce woke and tense responses. The initial indignation began last month when its image generator showed historically inaccurate figures such as Black Founding Fathers and ethnic minority Nazis in 1940s Germany. Sundar Pichai, the CEO of Google, referred to them as "completely intolerable" and the company also cut the software's ability to print images this week as a form of damage control. However, DailyMail.com's studies reveal that the AI chatbot, which can only provide text answers, has uncovered its bias on hot topics such as climate change, abortion, transphobia, pedophilia, and gun control.

Nick Candy, a property developer, takes aim at a dotcom celebrity

www.dailymail.co.uk, February 24, 2024
It's the latest advancement in the ongoing High Court contest between Candy, one of Britain's best known property developers, and Robert Bonnier. In the wake of a tech start-up's failure that promised to revolutionize social media, the two longtime business partners have traded tense legal battles for more than a year. Candy has accused Bonnier's wife Nashida of a string of "artificial trades" in shares of the podcast company Audioboom, which Candy claims 'bear the characteristics' of 'wash trading,' a form of market abuse.

Is Apple's answer to ChatGPT coming?Tim Cook teases AI announcement

www.dailymail.co.uk, February 2, 2024
Apple CEO Tim Cook (pictured) has confirmed that the company will make a big announcement on generative AI features before the end of the year.

Is Apple's answer to ChatGPT finally coming? Tim Cook, Apple's CEO, teases the possibility of a'large' AI announcement 'later this year.'

www.dailymail.co.uk, February 2, 2024
It's already been a year of massive technological leaps for the tech giant in the release of Apple's VisionPro today. But CEO Tim Cook (pictured) has now confirmed that 2024 will bring even more surprises in store as he teases a big announcement on generative AI. Although Apple's machines already have some machine learning functions, they are yet to produce a generative AI to rival Microsoft, Google, and Amazon. Apple's CEO has also revealed that they'ongoing AI work's 'ongoing research' in AI will be revealed later this year.

iPhone sales rise slightly (but shares decline by 31%), but Apple Watches CEO Tim Cook has stated that he would not do a deal to bring back the 'lifesaving' health feature

www.dailymail.co.uk, February 1, 2024
Apple's revenues and earnings exceeded Wall Street's expectations. But analysts' estimates were inaccurate, and experts said that pushed the share price down. Boss Tim Cook also spoke with CNBC about Apple Watches' removal of the blood oxygen sensor. According to a judge, the company improperly used technology from Masimo, a company that was a member of the Masimo corporation. Apple will not do a Masimo contract, according to Cook, so Watches will continue to be sold without the feature.

Apple stores have returned to the United States following a temporary ban - and customers can scoop one up TODAY

www.dailymail.co.uk, December 28, 2023
On Wednesday, the tech giant revealed that it would resume selling of its latest models, the Apple Watch Series 9 and Watch Ultra 2, at its stores. Customers would be able to buy the smartwatches online starting at 12 p.m. Pacific Time, or 3 p.m. Eastern Time, on Thursday, according to the company. Apple suspended all sales of the latest models on Christmas Eve as a result of a patent lawsuit brought by biotech firm Masimo that the firm lost in October.

Apple wins the fight to suspend Apple Watch in the United States appeals

www.dailymail.co.uk, December 27, 2023
An appeals court suspended the Apple Watch ban on Wednesday. With the news, Apple will continue to offer all versions of its Apple Watch, which have been part of a court conflict with Masimo, which has alleged Apple's blood oxygen technology for its smartwatches.

Did an email spark the Apple Watch ban? In a 2013 letter to Tim Cook, a former Masimo scientist promised to push the tech giant into the "medical, fitness, and wellness market."

www.dailymail.co.uk, December 27, 2023
The Apple Watch debacle may have been started by a former employee of Masimo's sister company, Cercacor Laboratories, who claimed to have knowledge of medical advancements. Marcelo Lamego emailed Cook ten years ago, promising to make Apple's 'No.1 brand in the medical, fitness, and wellness market' with his knowledge of medical devices. Apple and California-based biotech firm Masimo, which claims Apple fired its employees and stole IP to use in its own devices, are the object of a court dispute involving blood oxygen technology.

In front of Jill Biden, the world's first ladies and BlackPink actress Rose, Tim Cook defends Apple's privacy policies after sparking controversy by dining with Xi

www.dailymail.co.uk, November 17, 2023
Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple, defended his company's privacy policies in a forum on mental health hosted by Jill Biden for spouses of the leaders at a summit on American-Pacific issues. For a discussion on how social media affects mental stability, the American first lady welcomed several of her colleagues to Apple Park, the 360-acre company headquarters, for a chat on how social media influences mental health. Rose, a member of the K-Pop group BlackPink, was among them in Biden's invitation to remind those present that even famous people suffer with mental disorders.

With Apple CEO Tim Cook, Xi Jinping meets Elon Musk and dines

www.dailymail.co.uk, November 16, 2023
More than a dozen CEOs in the United States are under fire for attending the glamorous $40,000-per-seat gala Biden hosted in San Francisco with the 'guest of honour,' Chinese President Xi Jinping.

At a $40,000-per-seat soiree, Chinese emper Xi Jinping meets Elon Musk and dines with Apple CEO Tim Cook and FedEx chief FedEx chief John Chen

www.dailymail.co.uk, November 16, 2023
After attending President Joe Biden's glamorous $40,000-per-seat gala in San Francisco with Chinese President Xi Jinping as the 'guest of honor,' a dozen American business executives are facing criticism.' Apple's Tim Cook and Executive Vice President of Boeing Stanley Deal were among the top executives at the dinner surrounding the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meeting with Xi. Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla, SpaceX, and X, made a pre-eminent appearance at the gala for cocktail hour cocktails, where he rubbed elbows with the Chinese emperor in the midst of rising tensions with the west. According to various reports, he departed before dinner began.